For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Hello everyone! Hard to believe that this year is over already. But a new year is close by with new plans, new ideas, new fun. I hope this year has been a good one for you, but even more, I hope that the coming year which is the start of a new decade also, will be an even better year for you!
I want to end this year by reposting this video poem for your enjoyment. Perhaps you listened to it before, now’s your chance for another listen. And if you missed it the first time then here is your chance to listen to it now. It is a collaboration with my good friend Nina Zain who managed to take one of my poems and really give it some life! Thank you so much once again Nina for being willing to do this!!
Muffin and I hope you all have a wonderful evening and a very Happy and Beautiful New Year!!
Steve, Muffin and special guest, Nina.
© 2019 Steve McLeod.
God bless you Steve! Happy New Year!
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Thank you so much Ryan!😃😺⛄🥳
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Happy New Year to Steve and Muffin! 🐱 🐈 😺 🥳
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Thank you Renee! Happy New Year!😃😺⛄🥳
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Happy new year!!
Congratulations from Japan🎉㊗️
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Wishing you and Muffin a wonderful new year full of many blessings!! 😺
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Thank you very much Michelle! I hope you have a wonderful New Year as well!😃😺⛄🥳
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Happy New Year dear Steve and Muffin! I pray for your well-being and happiness. The poem is really good!
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Thank you so much Ramyani!! Happy New Year to you as well, a year of blessings for you!😃😺
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Happy New Year to You & your so many beloved ones around you 🙂 Love from France ❤ Barbara
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Hi Barbara! Thank you and Happy New Year to you as well! I hope you have a wonderful year ahead!😃😺⛄🌲
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Merci 🙂 ❤
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Vous êtes les bienvenus.😃😺
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Wow ! thanks 🙂 😀
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My French isn’t very good, but I’m trying to learn.😀😺
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😀 I understand ! I’m trying to learn English 😀
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You’re doing very well.🙂
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Thank you, you’re nice with me 🙂
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You’re welcome. Thank you for your support here too!😃😺
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I like to read your” adventures in reality” – I love your “way of life”, thus it’s a pleasure for me to come & read
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Wow, thank you so much for your lovely comment! I hope you have a wonderful evening!
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😊🐭🤗🙈🤗🐭🙃
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😀😀😺😺🐭🐭
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What’s up?
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Me, and Muffin, sort of.
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Cool.
So I lived through work today.
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You lived through work today?
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Yeah very shockingly!
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Got to be careful around electricity.😲
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That’s not funny! What would you do if I told you I have the flu?
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Probably stay away.
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You might have to!
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Sigh.
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I’m not feeling my best and my bro got it. I’ve never had the flu before!
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You’ve never had the flu before?😲😳
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Nope. Never thought I would either, but with my job, the sick people are church, and now my bro, I can see it happening. My dad wants me to get the flu shot tomorrow, but I AM NOT!
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I get the flu shot every year, nothing to it. Won’t help you with your present flu though, takes 2 weeks to start working. But a good idea since you are with kids all the time, you might end up getting sick a lot.
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I know. I’m not getting it though.
Anyway, back to yesterday!!!!!!!!!
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Don’t be stubborn, do what your dad says, and get the flu shot!!!!!🤨😾
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I WILL NOT!
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GET THE FLU SHOT TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😠😠😠😠😠😠
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NO! I WON’T
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YES, YOU WILL, YES YOU WILL, YES YOU WILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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YOU CAN’T MAKE ME!
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I won’t talk to you anymore.
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No…. please talk to me!
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Sigh.
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Don’t sigh…. you need to smile! 🙂
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Sigh.😶
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Lol
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Like I said…. back to yesterday. Where did we leave off at?
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We never got started. You were busy making your shopping list that you didn’t make.
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Remember… I wanted to drive to the store!
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No, you wanted to get the flu shot.
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STEVE!
No anyway, I tried to get my sis out the driver’s seat, but I failed…. she was already driving.
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Sigh.
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So, if I couldn’t drive, I was going to ride on the passenger side.
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Sigh.
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So, I just desperate to get my little sis out the front! I’m way taller and I can’t fit in the back!
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Sigh.😑😯😥
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And then…. guess what?
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You hit your head and had to go get a flu shot.
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No get your head off of the flu!
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You started it and now you’re going to get the flu shot.
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I’m not getting the flu shot. My uncle died from getting the flu shot.
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You’re scared because of that?? Was it proven?
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Yes it was proven and this wasn’t 100 years ago either. Just 2 short years ago.
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They didn’t have flu shots 100 years ago. Sigh.
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Yeah I know, but 2 years ago they did and my uncle DIED! I had to do so much at his funeral. Too young to die.
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People also die from getting the flu. Actually, way more people die from getting the flu than from the flu shot.
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Thanks for that encouraging word.
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You are very welcome.
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It wasn’t nice.
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Saying “you’re welcome” is so nice.
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Not at all.
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I’m going to need a big stick.
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For what? Muffin?
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For YOU, so I can teach you proper English.
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I thought we weren’t talking about that. Did I make another error?
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Talking about what?
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About the flu and dying. Why are you wanting to hit me?
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I didn’t say I wanted to hit you. You’re trying to confuse me again. Not nice.
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It sounded like it!
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I never made any noise, you’re hearing things, probably your older sister.
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Lol
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Hi.
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I’ll be back soon
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Bye.
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Hey I’m back!
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Are you back?
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Yep!
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Hi.
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Hey!
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Hey what?
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When are you going to bed?
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Tonight.
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When?
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Is there an echo in here?
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What time?
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I would like to be in bed sleeping by 9. But as usual it won’t happen. Sigh.
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Okay that’s good.
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It is?
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Yeah if that’s your time cuz It’s already past 9
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Only 8:07
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No it’s 9:08
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You’re fast.
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Yep thanks
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🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Lol! I’m freaking out!
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Why don’t you go back in?🤔🤪
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Oh huh?
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😂😂😂
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Confusing!
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Only sometimes.
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Most of the time.
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Only some of most of the time.
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Lol
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😁😁😁
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So, you don’t like rock music? Have you ever heard it?
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Yes, I have heard it way too much and I do not like it. One of my brothers was in a rock band for a while.
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So, do you know what hymns are?
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Now you’re being sarcastic. Yes, I like hymns, but I don’t even listen to them at home. I can’t concentrate with music in the background.
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Do you attend church?
You like hymns sung/played old fashioned and traditional?
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Yes, I go to church.
Yes, I like traditional hymns.
Yes, old fashioned is better.
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Cool! I totally look up to you!
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Huge story short, I madly sat in the back seat with my other sis.
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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But then……….. I started LAUGHING really hard!
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Because you knew that getting the flu shot is a great thing to do.
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No because I remembered something funny in our conversation just minutes before.
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We talked about something funny?
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Yes and I laughed ALL the way to the store! I got my 3 sisters in the car laughing too! I cried it was so funny!
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Amazing. It must have been funny.
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It was….. and I never did write my list!
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Probably forgot some things too.
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I don’t think so! I just pretended I knew what I was doing while I shopped and hope I got enough food for 2 weeks.
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What if you don’t?
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I’ll die!
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Lack of eating will do that.
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I know, but anyway, this morning was very interesting…. it involved you.
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I wasn’t there this morning.
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But I talked about you for 2 hours!
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I don’t remember talking to you for 2 hours.
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But I talked about you to my family!
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That’s not nice. And after all the nice things I could have done for you.
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It was nice!!!!!!!!!! Where should I begin?
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You were telling your family how nice I am.
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Yes! They think you’re cool!
I told them all about how much you’ve been through, but yet you are always on the positive out-look. That really got to me. I told them about how cold it is there.
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Thanks, and you only know a small part.
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And then I told them about how funny and nice you are
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Aww, thanks. How could you possibly talk about me for 2 hours?🤔🙄
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And then….. I told them how much you like pancakes… we had pancakes for dinner.
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Pancakes!!!!!!!!😂😂🙄 Muffin likes pancakes too.😀😀😺😺
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I know! They think you’re so cool!
You know you’re blogs’ motto?
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Of course I know it, I made it up.🙄
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What is it?
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What is it?
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Is it…. A Smile as wide as the country?
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“A Smile As Wide As A Country Sunrise”
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Cool so I have something to tell you about that.
BTW… I LOVE that!
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Thanks.
What?
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I wrote a song about that!
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You wrote a song about that?
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I knew you would say that. Lol!
I wrote a song about “A Smile As Wide As A Country Sunrise”
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How could you write a song about it when you didn’t know what the motto was?
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I had it right…. it’s on your blog. But guess what?
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Sing it to me.
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No silly! I have the words and it’s awwwwwwesome!
I just need you to tell me what type of music it should be.
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You wrote it and you can’t sing it?
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I can, but do you want me to sing it to, pop, rap, jazz, blues, country, traditional, rock, etc????
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I hate to tell you this, but most of those I wouldn’t listen to if I was paid. Sigh. How about traditional? I think Muffin is dreaming about the next part of our adventure.
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So you’re not into all that stuff?
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Yep. Nope.
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Then what do you listen to?
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I don’t. Not a music lover.
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Holy cow!!!!!!!! REALLY?
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How many cows do you have? Yes, really, I’m too busy with other things, playing music in the background is too distracting, can’t think then.
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Zero, but but but but!!!!!!!!! WOW! I’m the opposite….. music is my LIFE!
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I much prefer the sounds of nature, natural and calming.
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Man! You are different!
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That’s the way it goes. That’s me. And time for me to go now.
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Oh good night. 😦
All I can say is You Are A True REAL Christian! WOW!
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Thanks.
Still going to talk to me?
Good night. Must go, can’t keep my eyes open.😴😴
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You’re welcome!
I’m in awe… yeah, I’ll stop.
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I hope you sleep well.
That’s all amazing and remarkable!
We’ll have to talk tomorrow….. which will be busy for me, but oh well, I hope I’ll have some time.
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It’s really cool and I’ll play it on my guitar which can be traditional. I can play all those others things listed though.
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I love this. You’ve got a nice blog.
It’s an honor to be here 🙇 . I hope I can make good friends with you💐
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Hi Vincent! Nice to have you here at Steve’s Country! I’m Steve and Muffin is my cat and a big part of my blog. I hope you enjoy it here, have a wonderful weekend! By the way, I’m from Canada, may I ask where you live?
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Steve!!😃 I’m really honored to meet you. And yeah, I would love you to help me greet Muffin.
That’s nice to know. I’m from Nigeria 😊
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I’m glad to meet you to Vincent, nice to have a new friend from Nigeria. I’ll say “hi” to Muffin for you. I guess it would already be early tomorrow morning for you, enjoy your Saturday!😃😺
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😃I’m most honored to meet you also. Which country are you from?
I’m sure Muffin would be happy to see that I know him.
Yes it is, thanks 😊
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I’m from Canada Vincent. Muffin being my female cat who gives me a lot of inspiration for my blogging! As does nature which is mostly what I write about. Have a good weekend!😃😺
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😅yeah. I will travel to Canada, and guess who I will come to see?
Muffin. 😝😝😝not you. If She gives you inspiration, i would love to see her give me inspiration too.
Guess what? I think you should write a very short post about Muffin 😁she deserves some attention for her great work of giving you inspiration. 💐
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Thanks so much Vincent!😃😺 Actually I have written about Muffin before and she even “writes” her own posts and poems sometimes too.😸😻 Can’t do it too often though, she’s more popular than I am!!😻😹😕
I don’t think you would like her way of “inspiring” however, unless you like sore feet!😹😾😂
It probably is time for her to write another post,🤔 she just wrote a poem recently on exercising which was popular.😳😸 And she is the star of my mystery series.😻😻🕵️♂️🕵️♀️ People read it just because of Muffin I’m sure!😁😸
Have a wonderful weekend Vincent!😃😺🌞
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I honestly don’t know what to say actually 😂 Muffin is the STAR 💫. With what you’ve said, I don’t think I want her to inspire me again. 😂 I will make out time to check out your blogs posts. There’s certainly a lot of things that I must learn from Muffin.
You are also a great person. I’m sure Muffin will always be happy to see you around.
And guess what?
I speak cat language also😂I can talk to her and she won’t make your feet sore again😅😜😜😜😜
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